» Culture http://www.aprmnigeria.org Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:22:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/signal-and-noise-media-infrastructure-and-urban-culture-in-nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/signal-and-noise-media-infrastructure-and-urban-culture-in-nigeria#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:55:21 +0000 admin http://www.aprmnigeria.org/signal-and-noise-media-infrastructure-and-urban-culture-in-nigeria

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Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the north of Nigeria, Larkin charts how the material qualities of technologi… More >>

Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

]]> http://www.aprmnigeria.org/signal-and-noise-media-infrastructure-and-urban-culture-in-nigeria/feed 0 “We Were All Slaves: African Miners, Culture, and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/we-were-all-slaves-african-miners-culture-and-resistance-at-the-enugu-government-colliery-nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/we-were-all-slaves-african-miners-culture-and-resistance-at-the-enugu-government-colliery-nigeria#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:12:35 +0000 admin http://www.aprmnigeria.org/we-were-all-slaves-african-miners-culture-and-resistance-at-the-enugu-government-colliery-nigeria > ]]>

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A story of the miners who profoundly shaped the process of production, and the rhythms and culture of work and resistance at the Enugu colliery in Nigeria. The author draws comparisons between the experiences of the Enugu miners and their counterparts in Scotland, Wales and northern England…. More >>

“We Were All Slaves: African Miners, Culture, and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria

]]> http://www.aprmnigeria.org/we-were-all-slaves-african-miners-culture-and-resistance-at-the-enugu-government-colliery-nigeria/feed 0 The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/the-pan-african-nation-oil-and-the-spectacle-of-culture-in-nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/the-pan-african-nation-oil-and-the-spectacle-of-culture-in-nigeria#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:33:02 +0000 admin http://www.aprmnigeria.org/the-pan-african-nation-oil-and-the-spectacle-of-culture-in-nigeria

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When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter’s The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria’s spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust.

According to Apter, FESTAC expande… More >>

The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria

]]> http://www.aprmnigeria.org/the-pan-african-nation-oil-and-the-spectacle-of-culture-in-nigeria/feed 1 A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/a-culture-of-corruption-everyday-deception-and-popular-discontent-in-nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/a-culture-of-corruption-everyday-deception-and-popular-discontent-in-nigeria#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:53:57 +0000 admin http://www.aprmnigeria.org/a-culture-of-corruption-everyday-deception-and-popular-discontent-in-nigeria

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E-mails proposing an “urgent business relationship” help make fraud Nigeria’s largest source of foreign revenue after oil. But scams are also a central part of Nigeria’s domestic cultural landscape. Corruption is so widespread in Nigeria that its citizens call it simply “the Nigerian factor.” Willing or unwilling participants in corruption at every turn, Nigerians are deeply ambivalent about it–resigning themselves to it, justifying it, or complaining about it. The… More >>

A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria

]]> http://www.aprmnigeria.org/a-culture-of-corruption-everyday-deception-and-popular-discontent-in-nigeria/feed 0 Culture and Customs of Nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/culture-and-customs-of-nigeria http://www.aprmnigeria.org/culture-and-customs-of-nigeria#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:58:02 +0000 admin http://www.aprmnigeria.org/culture-and-customs-of-nigeria

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Nigeria, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa, is rich in traditions and customs, both indigenous and modern. Culture and Customs of Nigeria is the only concise, authoritative, and up-to-date discussion of Nigerian culture that introduces to a Western audience the complexity of its society and the emerging lifestyles among its various peoples. Students and other interested readers will learn about all major aspects of Nigerian culture and custom… More >>

Culture and Customs of Nigeria

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